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About FoodMayhem

In the chaotic kitchen of a recipe developer, you get a food blog called FoodMayhem.

I'm Jessica, an Asian-American, born and raised in NYC, and that's Lon, my Jewish, white husband. While professionally trained as a French culinary- and pastry chef, many of FoodMayhem recipes are my attempt to preserve and share authentic Chinese and Taiwanese recipes learned from my mom. We don't eat Chinese food every day, so you'll get a little bit of anything we find delicious enough to share: from our Eastern European side; recipes and techniques learned from my restaurant days; restaurant reviews, food travel tips; and a few other juicy bits along the way. Welcome to FoodMayhem!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Happy Halloween!

Our friend Marcos gave us an adorable little Halloween book, Goulish Goodies. If I got the story correctly, Marcos’ wife is a teacher and one of her students’ mother is the author, Sharon Bowers. It’s full of great ideas for Halloween treats, many that you can do with kids, and there’s enough in there to last you for years. Lon liked the idea of bones, made with pretzels, marshmallows, and white chocolate. It’s only three ingredients so you can still slip this in as a last minute activity.

While there is a recipe, you really don’t need one. You can use different sizes of pretzel sticks/rods and different sizes of marshmallows to create different sizes of bones.

You stick a marshmallow at the end of each pretzel stick/rod. It works better if you put the marshmallows on horizontally, perpendicular to the stick. Prepare all of them before working with the white chocolate.

Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler, removing from the heat just before all the chocolate is melted. Stir to melt the rest, away from heat. It’s ok if it remains a little lumpy. Dip the pretzel/marshmallows in the white chocolate, using a fork to move it around and pick it up. Lay each one on a baking sheet (use silpat if you have) without any touching. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. You can store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator or a cool place until you’re ready to serve them.

posted by jessica at 01:20 PM
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Funny thing, I just bought the same ingredients today! (so glad that baking supply store is on our office’s block) I’ll be doing this tonight. You and Hugh Jackman must have been separated at birth – the resemblance is uncanny. Ice is the real superhero for controlling her impulse to snarf up dem bones.